FR is almost gone right now. It isn’t you ... feels like a DOS attack to me.
I am embarrassed that I didn’t think of the following source earlier - it makes me feel a bit of a fool about all the effort I put in earlier today...
I just thought of going to DOE to get figures for power outages. Here is a starting link:
http://www.oe.energy.gov/news_room_and_events/events.htm
From there I eventually discovered this report of today’s situation:
Situation Report for September 14, 2008, 10AM
http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/docs/2008_SitRep_2_Ike_091408_12PM.pdf
My summary is:
2.8 Million “customers” (not people) are dark now. 90% in Texas, others in LA and AR
Many Oil facilities shut down, but no reports of substantial damage.
Natural gas pipelines seem to be OK. No infrastructure damage reported. Much is already being brought back on line.
83% of Offshore platforms, etc., evacuated. No assessment of damage until Tuesday.
IF you look at that report, I caution you that the 90%+ of oil facilities out is meaningless as far as anything having to do with damage. That simply means certain facilities are not producing as of this report.
Aside from it being callous to "pile on" while the barrier island folks were facing a major hurricane, I am also a little surprised to see that LiveScience is now a bonafide news source for Yahoo.
Aside from it being callous to "pile on" while the barrier island folks were facing a major hurricane, I am also a little surprised to see that LiveScience is now a bonafide news source for Yahoo.
And the financial news is scary .. tomorrow could be very very tough, coupled with the blow to some of our vital energy resources.
Prayers continue for those hurt so badly by Ike.
I’ve been to our Yahoo Groups FReerepublic2 backup room,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/messages
and I’ve posted on freedominion.com, where they’ve been nice enough to set up a FReeper guest room.
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=14&sid=5882fbfccdc4028c97018a5a3828615d
So, at least we have some backup sites in the absence of
FR ... I got here via:
http://beta.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index?tab=comments, per a poster at the Yahoo Groups site.
Hope it gets FIXED soon!